eşigin jabarğa
/eʃiɡin dʒabarʁa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
to close someone's door
Intended meaning
To inflict hardship and suffering on someone; to leave someone in calamity.
- Muratlarıŋ Leninni muratları bolub turğanlay, sen aŋa qajaw uşkok alıb çıqğansa! Eşigiŋi japhansa, Nanıw, – dedi Ramazan."While your aims were Lenin's own aims, you took up a rifle against him! You have closed your own door, Nanyu," said Ramazan.
Literal translation
to close someone's door
Intended meaning
To put someone to death.
- «Oğurlu Bayramuqdan boşağan bolurbuz. Qalay açıwlu iş boldu, qallay hurmetli, qallay alamat adamnı eşigin japdıla», – degen sağışla bla Mahmut dorbunŋa jetginçige deri awuzun açıb, birewge da söleşmey keldi."We must have finished off good Bayramuk. What a bitter thing has happened — what an honoured, what a splendid man they have closed the door of," — with such thoughts Mahmut walked on to the cave without opening his mouth, speaking to no one.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 527
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 246
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 251